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The collection 'Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style' is part of a larger project called Seat Assignment that
began two years ago, and involves making art while in flight, using
only the artist’s phone and what she can find around her.

The project involves making art while in flight, using only the artist’s phone and what she can find around her

The artist, who was born and raised in Stanford, California, said she was inspired to create the photographs after randomly taking a picture on another flight

The artist used her thin black scarf as a background by hanging up on the lavatory wall

The artist, who was born and raised in Stanford, California, said she was inspired to create the photographs after randomly taking a picture on another flight.

'I spontaneously put a toilet set cover on my head and looked in the mirror and thought, wow, I look like a painting. It was like an extreme form of improvisation.' she said.

'I was wearing a thin black scarf that I sometimes hung up on the wall behind me to create the deep black ground that is typical of these portraits.

'There is no special illumination in use other than the lavatory's own lights and all the images are shot hand-held with the camera phone.' she writes on her website.